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 nostr:npub1t8rvt8pwj4el0p7zav09f5fzmg07837z486qr8vpgc5h4608dd6q2wrvnw I guess what I'm getting at is: key management and security is difficult, particularly distributed, and requires sneakernet verification often. So if you just blindly trust that a key mentioned in the Actor object is authentic, then that's the flaw in your security, because you service also doesn't want to be checking the origin's Actor object for every activity or federations-request, so would need to cache known keys, which would mean a single mitm would poison the key cache